This revised and updated edition of the classic Square Meals is a celebration of American food from the 1920s through the 1950s, a salute to the days of lunch counters and the times when Sunday dinner was hearty and special.
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Delicious Square Meals,
By lisa m ham (harper woods, mi United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Square Meals : America's Favorite Comfort Cookbook (Paperback)
I have a first edition of Square Meals and it is falling apart from use!I'm so glad its back in print so I can get another copy. This cookbook has it all,cultural antropology, humor, excellent old fashioned recipes, and revolting recipes of the past that have providentially disappeared from todays cookbooks. One disgusting example is Banana Sardine Boats. Funny as the awful recipes are, they can't compete with the truely delicious ones like Pepsi Cola Cake,White Bread for Toasting( its the best white bread recipe i've ever used and the book includes a breadmaking diagram from the 30's to assist you ), Hawaiian Chicken and Pineapple Curry from the Ladies Lunch section( its exotic comfort food that both spice jaded palates and curry neophytes can enjoy together) and a 1905 recipe for Baked Spagetti (don't worry, it does't have any scary garlic or oregano in it!!). The Sterns reprint exerpts from old home ec pamphlets and cookbooks giving you a glimpse of your grandmothers past. if you read cookbooks like novels,read this one and you won't be dissapointed.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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great bed-time reading,
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The stories that lead to the recipes in this cookbook are what you'll want to read in bed, on the subway, etc. The recipes are what will make you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about rice pudding. I bought the original hardback edition 15 years ago and have actually purchased several more through used-book firms for gifts. It's truly the perfect wedding/engagement/housewarming gift for any baby-boomer -- where else can you find a whole chapter of high-school-cafeteria recipes? Granted, you may not want to actually make or eat the mac-and-cheese recipe, but the prose and recipe will make you feel like a teenager again! I own a couple hundred cookbooks and this is the one I keep by my bedside.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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cabbage heads and kings,
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This review is from: Square Meals : America's Favorite Comfort Cookbook (Paperback)
We had a hawaiian cowboy party, yes, a Don Ho Down. People came dressed a little hawaiian, a little cowboy. The biggest hit food wise was...well...you take a cabbage, hollow out the top, get a can of sterno,light it, take some skewers, poke them in the cabbage, put small sausages on the skewers...then you take out the skewers and heat them on the sterno....Those hawaiian cowboys had just been indoctrinated into the wonderful world of The Sterns, and Square Meals. I have always called Square meals the way real people eat, or ate in the forties, fifties, sixties but it aint just a cookbook(by the way, the mac and cheese is great)...but a fabulous introduction to two of the nations greatest pop sociologists, Jane and Michael Stern. Jane and Michael have explored Elvis, gone around the country eating in diners and dives, written an encyclopedia of Bad Taste, These people are in love with America in the muted, nostalgic tones that America comes off the best in. Square meals puts you in touch with a gentler, kinder time, where the people were nice and the food was fattening. I cannot recommend this cookbook and the work of the sterns enough
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